There are three new entries for boys - and none for girls - so what are the most popular baby names of 2017?

Unsurprisingly celebrities are influencing parents choices, and it is likely Meghan will make an appearance in the top 10 next year.

And TV also has a role to play, with Aria now in the top 20 girls names for 2017 thanks to Game of Thrones.

The facts and figures have been compiled by the webiste BabyCentre, and show that Olivia has kept its place the top of the charts for the girls.

The rest of the top five is made up of Lily, Sophia, Emily and Amelia while the top 20 has three new entries. Evelyn, Phoebe and Aria have taken the places of Chloe, Alice and Scarlett.

There are also seven new girls' names in the top 100 - Madison, Fatima, Amy, Aurora, Arabella, Hallie and Skye which have knocked out Mya, Katie, Iris, Eden, Brooke, Nina and Bethany, reports The Mirror.

On the boys' side Mohammed has reclaimed the number one slot, pushing Oliver back to number two.

And there are three new entries into the top 20 - Jackson, Logan and Lucas replace Henry, Thomas and Max.

For the boys there are nine new entries in the top 100 with Ahmad, Syed, Hunter, Harley, Abdul, Roman, Parker, Levi and Joel replacing Connor, Alex, Sam, Callum, Dexter, Omar, Ben, Cameron and Seth.

Biblical name John is this year’s highest climber, storming up the charts 41 places to number 56.

British bad boys – and girls

Peaky Blinders may be inspiring a trend for gangster chic with the East End's Reggie and Ronnie, famous first names of the Kray twins, steadily climbing up the boys’ charts, while Violet (the Krays’ mother) and Nancy (the tragic gangster’s moll in Oliver Twist) gaining popularity for parents of girls.

Other classic British gangster names are also gaining a stronghold. Top 100 favourite Frankie could be inspired by Kray rival Frankie Fraser.

Carter is another high climber – could it be inspired by Michael Caines’ character in the classic British gangster movie Get Carter?

Peaky Blinders characters are having an effect on the charts, with Tommy and Arthur rising one and seven places respectively this year, while fellow Peaky Blinder name Alfie remains a firm favourite in the top 100.

Or perhaps the popularity of Reggie, Ronnie and Alfie could be down to the Tom Hardy effect, as they’re all characters played by the British actor.

Whatever the reason, BabyCentre parents clearly see the appeal of a bad boy.

Gender equality

As conversations around gender stereotyping continue to spark debate in the UK, parents are sitting up and taking notice, with gender neutral names on the rise in this year’s charts.

Inspired perhaps by John Lewis’ decision to remove girls and boys labels from their children’s clothing range, BabyCentre parents have increasingly chosen names that are suitable for both boys or girls.

After seeing a surge in the popularity of gender neutral names this year, we wanted to dig a little further to see if this was a growing trend with BabyCentre parents.

We found 20 names, each of which had at least a quarter of its registrations to both sexes. The most popular of these was Riley, with just under two thirds of boy registrations and just over a third of girls. This was closely followed by Frankie, where the share was reversed.

The name with the most balanced split between the sexes was Harley, which was our third most popular gender-neutral name. Only a few years ago Harley was predominantly seen as a boy’s name but, in 2017, 49 per cent of BabyCentre registrations were for girls. And, with Quinn at number five in the gender-neutral list, there’s no doubt parents are also finding inspiration in Suicide Squad’s supervillain Harley Quinn.

Love Island inspiration

DC and Marvel superheroes may still be making their mark in the name charts but this year there was one small screen hit that had more drama than any blockbuster franchise. Surprise hit of the summer, ITV’s Love Island, has influenced the names that parents are choosing for their baby girls, with Olivia clinging on to the top spot and Montana, Camilla and Gabby all enjoying more registrations in 2017.

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For boys, Theo remained a top 30 favourite and Harley jumped 33 places into the top 100 at number 71. Sadly, there were no registrations for Cash, which superfans will recognise as the name chosen by runner-up Chris Hughes for the doll he looked after as part of a parenting competition on the show! Is Cash a name to watch in 2018?

Nature reloaded

While names influenced by the great outdoors have been popular for the past few years, extreme nature names are storming up the charts.

Forest, Hawk, Hunter, Fox and, you guessed it, Storm, proved popular in 2017. Looking to the heavens for inspiration, Luna climbed 20 places and Hallie, Aurora and Skye were all new entries into the top 100.

Many wild choices were also popular for both boys and girls – River, Rowan, Raven and Robin all made our top 20 gender-neutral names chart. Is this return to nature rooted in millennial parents’ desire to reconnect with the great outdoors? It’s certainly a growing trend to watch in 2018.

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BabyCentre parents have gone wild this year when naming their newborn girls. Flowers, which have been a staple influence on the top 100 for the last few years, yielded to vaster natural wonders as Luna climbed 20 places and Aurora and Skye broke in as new entries.

River, Rowan and Raven gained popularity for both boys and girls – featuring among our most popular gender-neutral names too – while parents of girls also opted for Storm and Fox.

In the wake of the gender debate, are parents hoping to raise their daughters as forces to be reckoned with, or is this super nature trend simply rooted in a desire to reconnect with the great outdoors?

Olivia has clung onto the number one position this year. Could it be that the surprise small screen success of the summer helped secure the top spot, after Olivia Attwood was named runner up on Love Island?

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The reality TV show could also have been the inspiration behind so many parents naming their baby girls Montana, Camilla and Gabby in the second half of the year.

And, while the remainder of the top five – Lily, Emily, Amelia and Sophia – have been playing musical chairs since 2016, there were no new entries to the coveted top spots.

Further afield, the girls’ top 20 welcomed three new entries as Evelyn moved up six places and Phoebe and Aria just edged in to push out Chloe, Alice and Scarlett, which plummeted 12 places to number 30. Madison claimed the highest new entry into the top 100 at number 68 while Niamh was the highest climber, up 31 places to 67.

Niamh was closely followed by second highest climber Harper, which soared 29 places to number 27. Once mainly used for boys, there were 20 times more registrations for BabyCentre newborn girls in 2017 than for boys. Could parents be paying tribute to famed novelist Harper Lee who died in 2016? Or is Harper Beckham continuing to influence BabyCentre mums and dads?

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Whatever the answer, Harper is just one of a rising number of gender-neutral names, which also includes Harley and Quinn. Is Suicide Squad supervillain Harley Quinn continuing to influence parents or are they just motivated by a desire to be more gender fluid when it comes to naming their babies?

An unlikely source of inspiration for names this year came from British gangland. This made its mark mainly on the boys’ chart as Reggie and Ronnie, famous first names of the Kray twins, steadily climbed. But its influence was also felt on parents’ choices for girls, with Violet, mother of the Kray twins, and Nancy, the tragic gangster’s moll in Oliver Twist, gaining popularity.

Overall, 2017 saw seven new entries to the top 100. Madison, Fatima, Amy, Aurora, Arabella, Hallie and Skye took the places of Mya, Katie, Iris, Eden, Brooke, Nina and Bethany.

BabyCentre parents have been casting the net wide when it comes to inspiration for baby boys’ names this year, with the renaissance of old fashions and the arrival of brand new trends making an impact on our baby names charts. New parents are revamping nature-themed names for 2017 and looking beyond Hollywood for celebrity inspiration, picking names from the rich crop of TV dramas produced by the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime and the BBC.

Muhammad has claimed the top spot back from Oliver this year, with the two swapping places from their positions in the 2016 chart. Noah, which was in third place in 2016 has dropped three places in 2017 to number six, leaving room for Harry to climb into the top three. Could this be explained by Harry Styles lighting up the big screen in Dunkirk this year alongside Tom Hardy? Or perhaps Prince Harry’s high-profile romance with Meghan Markle has sparked more interest in the royal name. And now with a 2018 royal wedding on the cards, Harry's popularity looks set to continue.

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It seems us Brits also love a bad boy, with BabyCentre parents looking to British gangster names for inspiration this year. Real and fictional gangster names have been doing very well in the boys’ charts, with Reggie and Ronnie both climbing in popularity. This could also be down to the ‘Tom Hardy effect’, since the actor played both Kray twins in the film released at the very end of 2015.

There are three new entries in the top 20 boys’ names in 2017 – Jackson has climbed 14 places to number 11, Logan has risen 15 places to number 18 and Lucas has moved up three places to number 19. Logan’s growth could be thanks to the release of the film of the same name, starring Hugh Jackman, and Jackson could be down to new character Jackson Storm in the Disney Cars trilogy. The revival of Lucas could be a result of the success of the most recent Star Wars film at the end of 2016, in homage to George Lucas.

John was the highest climber in the top 100, shooting up an amazing 41 places to number 56 in the chart. This could be, as we predicted back in July, part of a wider resurgence of 70s classics. Or it could reflect on famous Johns reclaiming the limelight in 2017: American singer John Mayer released a new album at the start of the year and Jon Snow returned in a new series of Game of Thrones. Taking a look at the whole top 100 boys’ names chart, there are nine new entries as Ahmad, Syed, Hunter, Harley, Abdul, Roman, Parker, Levi and Joel jointly pushed Connor, Alex, Sam, Callum, Dexter, Omar, Ben, Cameron and Seth out of the top 100.